SCP 1739

Obsolete laptop

If you are about to die, but you could press a button that would instead kill a random person you've never met,

chances are you would push it.

This is, of course, an ethical dilemma, and although most of the time in the SCP universe,

the foundation tends to gloss over ethical issues for the sake of the greater good,

sometimes SCPs are focused on them.

Today we'll be looking at an SCP that seems rather benign at first, but eventually we, along with the foundation,

will see how serious it is, and what an ethical dilemma it presents.

SCP 1739 is, as the name suggests, a Dell Latitude D-800 laptop, a model made during the mid-2000s.

1739 spontaneously appeared in Foundation Containment on January 1, 2004.

As is standard for many SCPs, 1739 is seemingly impervious to all damage, but more notably is a program located

on its hard drive titled GoFetch.e. Upon opening this file, three separate applications open.

One, being an input field, requesting a date and time,

2 being a chat client, and 3 being a computer-generated animation.

The input field requests a time and date,

but it must be inputted in Unix timestamp format,

meaning a number of seconds that have passed since January 1, 1970.

The accepted range of times and dates is limited, however, and only a time after January 1, 2004, and before the current time will be accepted. If a time is entered between

those two dates, the individual that entered the time will suddenly disappear. The chat client is

used to communicate with someone in a parallel universe, who always utilizes the handle, Isaac, followed by a number.

Isaac only connects to the chat client after someone disappears from entering in a time,

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